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Developing a Culture
of Innovation
Jaime G. Gomez
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority
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“creating solutions with
the customer in mind”
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Fostering a Culture of Innovation• ensuring competitiveness and agility as market
dynamics place new pressures affordable housing and
economic development needs of the State
• establishing a commitment to identify and invest in
new housing solutions to meet growing needs
• advancing continuous improvement efforts and taking
it to the next level
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Making the Shift
• Create a strategy to achieve this future state
• Reduce any road blocks/barriers (real or perceived) in achieving a
culture of innovation
• Create a clear message to all staff based on this vision
• Provide the tools needed for all innovative types
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Barriers to an Innovative Culture
• Fear of failure
• Inability (or desire) to challenge the status quo
• Lack of time/capacity due to “day jobs”
• Lack of empowerment
• Transparency/Trust
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Call to Action….
Call to Action
Personal Innovation
OrganizationalInnovation
“Innovation Marketplace”
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Innovation Wall
• Based on the Notre Dame’s Unifying Innovation Methodology™
• Intent is to drive a disciplined approach to creating solutions
while engaging in creative, human-centric, agile thinking
• A place to take ideas from inception to launch
• Collaboration; Monthly Conversations
• Strategic Planning alignment
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▪Most important part of the framework!▪What problem are we trying to solve?
▪Why does it matter?
▪ Is it aligned with our business/strategic direction?
▪What barrier is in our way?
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” -Albert Einstein
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▪Seek to understand!
▪ “Discover” what the customer really wants
▪ Empathize – stand in your customer ’s shoes
▪ Immersion, research, analysis, identify trends
▪ Findings and Insights
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▪Challenge assumptions!
▪ Create possibilities – asking “What if?”
▪ Build preliminary concepts for possible solutions.
▪ Brainstorming!
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▪Create a viable offering/prototype/concept to test
▪Continue to expand and elaborate
▪Develop an initial business model/action plan
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▪Solution is ready to be deployed to the customer
▪Could be a scaled pilot or working product/service
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Innovation Wall
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wall idea magnets
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Impact of the Wall?
• Increased visibility and transparency around new and innovative
ideas – both small efforts aimed at continuous improvement and
transformative ideas
• Better communication around the advancement of ideas from
framing to launch
• Comfort level has improved as it relates to failure, creativity, risk
tolerance, and speed of execution
• Staff collaboration and collision moments
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Examples
• Insight document delivery
• On demand internal training videos
• Chatbot
• Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
• Missing Middle Mezzanine Finance Product
• Manufactured Housing Parks
• Land Trusts
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vs.
❑ Idea is assigned to someone else
❑ Can be anonymous
❑ Tendency to be more
“internal” focused
❑ Can be a quick, and
easy win re: added
efficiency, or cultural
improvement
❑ Ownership and
engagement to your idea
❑ Preferable not anonymous
❑ Customer, internal or
external focused
❑ Formalized
innovation process
innovation wallIdea box
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